I used both Wordpress an jekyll to help me manage my notes and I loved jekyll more.
The main reason is the editing. The Wordpress editor is terrible. Not to mention that you have to sign in every time you want to add posts. With a static generator you would use your favorite text editor. My favorite editor happens to be sublime so writing all my content there is pure bliss (with markdown plugins and so forth)
I haven't kept up with static generators but when I used jekyll it regenerated the whole project every time I added a new post, so when I got 100+ posts it was terribly slow to build and motivation killer. This was few years back.
Also, I'd recommend you host your repository somewhere private, bitbucket and gitlab give that for free. This is so that you can write as many drafts as you like fully knowing that they are private notes, then host the site at netlify.
ps - does anyone know any static generator that generates new content without generating the entire site?
I used both Wordpress an jekyll to help me manage my notes and I loved jekyll more.
The main reason is the editing. The Wordpress editor is terrible. Not to mention that you have to sign in every time you want to add posts. With a static generator you would use your favorite text editor. My favorite editor happens to be sublime so writing all my content there is pure bliss (with markdown plugins and so forth)
I haven't kept up with static generators but when I used jekyll it regenerated the whole project every time I added a new post, so when I got 100+ posts it was terribly slow to build and motivation killer. This was few years back.
Also, I'd recommend you host your repository somewhere private, bitbucket and gitlab give that for free. This is so that you can write as many drafts as you like fully knowing that they are private notes, then host the site at netlify.
ps - does anyone know any static generator that generates new content without generating the entire site?
Why netlify, why not Github pages?